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To celebrate International Women’s Day, I want to tell you about two projects I’ve recently been involved with, both of which are fighting to give women and girls in difficult situations the support they need to thrive. Hub for Change: fighting for an end to forced marriage and FGM I had the privilege of working […]

It’s not as well-known amongst charities as it could be, but Google has a programme which gives non-profit organisations free credits that they can use for pay-per-click advertising on Google. It’s called a Google Grant, and it allows eligible organisations to spend up to $10,000 per month on AdWords campaigns, putting their organisation into the […]

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Later this month I will be leading some WordPress training workshops as part of the Social Media Exchange Express. Those lovely and talented peeps at SoundDelivery have put together a great programme of hands-on sessions for people who want to learn more about how to do pretty much anything in social media. From Twitter to […]

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This year Diamond Light Source (the UK’s rather fancy and very shiny synchrotron scientific facility) is exhibiting at The Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition, and they decided they’d like a microsite to help educate people about the talks they will be giving at the exhibition, as well as keeping the dialogue going with visitors, reporting […]

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My latest website overhaul project is for Hackney’s youth charity, Off Centre. They are a lovely organisation which helps young people who live, work or study in Hackney deal with issues such as violence, depression, neglect, sexual health, family breakdown and all the other things that can have such a huge and lasting impact on […]

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On Tuesday 6 April, I’ll be acting as host at this month’s NetTuesday event: Digital Storytelling. If you’ve ever wondered how you can add audio slideshows to your online communications, come along and learn from the lovely guys over at SoundDelivery, who will be the evening’s speakers. They will be highlighting examples of charities and […]

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Next Tuesday I will be speaking about how you can create professional-looking websites quickly, at low cost and with high quality. Sounds impossible? Not anymore. The latest breed of web-based applications and tools have totally revolutionised the web industry, and next week I will be sharing my experience of working with these tools. I will […]

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Today marks the launch of my latest Squarespace website: a charity website for the Confectioner’s Benevolvent Fund (aka Sweet Charity). As they are a small UK charity, the challenge on this project was to create a great looking and functioning site on a tight budget, complete with multiple author/editor roles, embedded Flash and an event […]

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